As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 22, 2013
Registration No. 333-     

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC  20549

 
FORM S-8
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 
NRG YIELD, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 
Delaware	 	46-1777204	
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)	 	(I.R.S. Employer
 Identification No.)	
 
211 Carnegie Center
Princeton, New Jersey	 	08540	
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)	 	(Zip Code)	
 
NRG Yield, Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plans)
 
David R. Hill
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
 
NRG Yield, Inc.
211 Carnegie Center
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
(609) 524-4500
(Name and address of agent for service and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copies to:
 
Gerald T. Nowak, P.C.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
300 N. LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois  60654
(312) 862-2000
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act  (Check one):
 
Large accelerated filero	Accelerated filero	Non-accelerated filerx	Smaller reporting companyo	
 	(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)	 	

 
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
 
Title of securities to be registered	 	Amount to be
registered (1)	 	Proposed maximum
offering price per
share(2)	 	Proposed maximum
aggregate offering
price (2)	 	Amount of
registration
fee	 	
Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share	 	978,750	(3)	$	22.00	 	$	21,532,500	 	$	2,938	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
(1)        Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement also covers any additional shares of Class A common stock which become issuable because of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock.
 
(2)        Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The price per share and aggregate offering price are calculated on the basis of $22.00, the initial public offering price of the registrant’s Class A common stock determined on July 16, 2013.
 
(3)        Represents shares of Class A common stock issuable pursuant to the NRG Yield, Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan being registered hereon.

 

 
PART I
 
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
 
Item 1.                                                        Plan Information.
 
The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered in accordance with Form S-8 and Rule 428(b) under the Securities Act.  Such documents are not required to be, and are not, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.  These documents, and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Form S-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
 
Item 2.                                                        Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
 
The written statement required by Item 2 of Part I is included in documents delivered to participants in the plans covered by this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 428(b) of the Securities Act.

 
PART II
 
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
 
Item 3.                                                        Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
 
The following documents, which have been filed by NRG Yield, Inc. (the “Company”) with the Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:
 
(a)                                                        The Company’s prospectus dated July 16, 2013, filed with the Commission on July 18, 2013 pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) of the Securities Act, which prospectus is a part of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-189148); and
 
(b)                                                        The description of the Company’s Class A common stock contained in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-36002) filed with the Commission on July 12, 2013, pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.
 
All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than Current Reports on Form 8-K furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K, including any exhibits included with such information, unless otherwise indicated therein) after the date of this Registration Statement, but prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
 
Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
 
Item 4.                                                        Description of Securities.
 
Not applicable.
 
Item 5.                                                        Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
 
Not applicable
 
Item 6.                                                        Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
 
The Company is incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. Section 102(b)(7) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) allows a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation will not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached the duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock repurchase in violation of Delaware corporate law or obtained an improper personal benefit. The Company’s certificate of incorporation provides for this limitation of liability.
 
Section 145 of the DGCL (“Section 145”), provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any person who was, is or is threatened to be made, party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
 
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corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was illegal. A Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who are, were or are threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests, provided that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if the officer, director, employee or agent is adjudged to be liable to the corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him against the expenses which such officer or director has actually and reasonably incurred.
 
Section 145 further authorizes a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise, against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the corporation would otherwise have the power to indemnify him under Section 145.
 
The Company’s second amended and restated bylaws provide that we must indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL and must also pay expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition upon delivery of an undertaking, by or on behalf of an indemnified person, to repay all amounts so advanced if it should be determined ultimately that such person is not entitled to be indemnified.
 
The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with certain of its executive officers and directors pursuant to which the Company will agree to indemnify such persons against all expenses and liabilities incurred or paid by such person in connection with any proceeding arising from the fact that such person is or was an officer or director of our company, and to advance expenses as incurred by or on behalf of such person in connection therewith.
 
The indemnification rights set forth above are not exclusive of any other right which an indemnified persons may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation, its bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
 
The Company expects to maintain standard policies of insurance that provide coverage (1) to its directors and officers against loss rising from claims made by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act and (2) to the Company with respect to indemnification payments that the Company may make to such directors and officers.
 
The underwriting agreement with respect to the sale by the Company of 19,575,000 shares of its Class A common stock in its initial public offering, a form of which was previously filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-189148), provides for indemnification to the Company’s directors and officers by the underwriters against certain liabilities.
 
Item 7.                                                        Exemption from Registration Claimed.
 
Not applicable.
 
Item 8.                                                        Exhibits.
 
Reference is made to the attached Exhibit Index, which is incorporated by reference herein.
 
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Item 9.                                                        Undertakings.
 
(a)                                The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
 
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
 
(i)                                    To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
 
(ii)                                 To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement; and
 
(iii)                              To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;
 
provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
 
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial  bona fide  offering thereof; and
 
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
 
(b)        The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Company’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial  bona fide  offering thereof.
 
(c)         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
 
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registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
 
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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Princeton, State of New Jersey, on July 22, 2013.
 
 	NRG YIELD, INC.	

 	By:	/s/ Brian E. Curci	
 	 	Name:  Brian E. Curci	
 	 	Title:    Secretary	
 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby severally constitutes and appoints David W. Crane, David R. Hill and Brian E. Curci, and each of them individually, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, his or her true and lawful attorney-in fact and agent, with full powers to each of them to sign for us, in our names and in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement on Form S-8 and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and any and all amendments to said Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments), granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as each of them might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys, and each of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney.  This power of attorney may be executed in counterparts and all capacities to sign any and all amendments.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
 
Signatures	 	Title	 	Date	
 	 	 	 	 	
/s/ David W. Crane	 	President and Chief Executive Officer and Director	 	July 22, 2013	
David W. Crane	 	(principal executive officer)	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
/s/ Kirkland B. Andrews	 	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	 	July 22, 2013	
Kirkland B. Andrews	 	(principal financial officer)	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
/s/ Ronald B. Stark	 	Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer	 	July 22, 2013	
Ronald B. Stark	 	(principal accounting officer)	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
/s/ Mauricio Gutierrez	 	Director	 	July 22, 2013	
Mauricio Gutierrez	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
/s/ Christopher S. Sotos	 	Director	 	July 22, 2013	
Christopher S. Sotos	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
/s/ John F. Chlebowski	 	Director	 	July 22, 2013	
John F. Chlebowski	 	 	 	 	
 
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/s/ Ferrell P. McClean	 	Director	 	July 22, 2013	
Ferrell P. McClean	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
/s/ Brian R. Ford	 	Director	 	July 22, 2013	
Brian R. Ford	 	 	 	 	
 
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EXHIBIT INDEX
 
Exhibit
Number	 	Description	
4.1	 	Form of Amended & Restated Certificate of Incorporation of NRG Yield, Inc.*	
4.2	 	Form of Second Amended & Restated Bylaws of NRG Yield, Inc.*	
4.3	 	Specimen Stock Certificate of NRG Yield, Inc.*	
5.1	 	Opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.	
23.1	 	Consent of KPMG, LLP, independent public registered accounting firm with respect to the audited financials of NRG Yield, Inc.	
23.2	 	Consent of KPMG LLP, independent public registered accounting firm with respect to the audited financials of the predecessor of NRG Yield	
23.3	 	Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent auditors with respect to the audited financials of GCE Holding LLC	
23.4	 	Consent of KPMG LLP, independent public registered accounting firm with respect to the audited financials of NRG Marsh Landing LLC, formerly GenOn Marsh Landing, LLC	
23.5	 	Consent of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).	
24.1	 	Powers of Attorney (included on the signature pages of this Registration Statement).	
99.1	 	NRG Yield, Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan*	

*                                        Incorporated by reference to exhibits filed with the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-189148), as declared effective on July 16, 2013.

Exhibit 5.1

 	
 	300 North LaSalle Street	 	
 	Chicago, Illinois 60654	 	
 	 	Facsimile:	
 	(312) 862-2000	(312) 862-2200	
 	 	 	
 	www.kirkland.com	 	
 
July 22, 02013
 
NRG Yield Inc.
211 Carnegie Center
Princeton, NJ 08540
 
Registration Statement on Form S-8
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
We are providing this letter in our capacity as special counsel to NRG Yield, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the filing by the Company of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) covering the offering of up to 978,750 shares of Class A common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “2013 Plan Shares”), pursuant to the NRG Yield, Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2013 Plan”).
 
For purposes of this letter, we have examined such documents, records, certificates, resolutions and other instruments deemed necessary as a basis for this opinion, and we have assumed the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies and the authenticity of the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies.
 
Based upon and subject to the assumptions and limitations stated in this letter, we advise you that that the 2013 Plan Shares are duly authorized and, when (i) the Registration Statement related to the 2013 Plan Shares becomes effective under the Act and (ii) the 2013 Plan Shares have been duly issued pursuant to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the 2013 Plan and the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Second Amended and Restated Bylaws, the 2013 Plan Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
 
Our opinion expressed above is subject to the qualification that we express no opinion as to the applicability of, compliance with, or effect of any laws except the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
 
Hong Kong    London    Los Angeles    Munich    New York    Palo Alto    San Francisco    Shanghai    Washington, D.C.

 
We have relied without independent investigation upon, among other things, an assurance from the Company that the number of shares which the Company is authorized to issue in its Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation exceeds the number of shares outstanding and the number of shares which the Company is obligated to issue (or had otherwise reserved for issuance) for any purposes other than issuances in connection with the 2013 Plan by at least the number of 2013 Plan Shares which may be issued in connection with the 2013 Plan and we have assumed that such condition will remain true at all future times relevant to this opinion. We have assumed that the Company will cause certificates, if any, representing the 2013 Plan Shares issued in the future to be properly executed and delivered and will take all other actions appropriate for the issuances of such 2013 Plan Shares.
 
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.
 
We do not find it necessary for the purposes of this opinion, and accordingly we do not purport to cover herein, the application of the securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the various states to the issuance and sale of the 2013 Plan Shares.
 
This opinion is limited to the specific issues addressed herein, and no opinion may be inferred or implied beyond that expressly stated herein. We assume no obligation to revise or supplement this opinion should the present laws of the State of Delaware be changed by legislative action, judicial decision or otherwise.
 
This opinion is furnished to you in connection with the filing of the Registration Statement and is not to be used, circulated, quoted or otherwise relied upon for any other purpose.
 
 	Sincerely,	
 	 	
 	/s/ KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP	
 	 	
 	KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP	
 
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Exhibit 23.1
 
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
The Management and Board of Directors
NRG Energy, Inc.:
 
We consent to the use of our report dated May 2, 2013, with respect to the balance sheet of NRG Yield, Inc. as of December 31, 2012, and to the reference to our firm under the heading “Experts”, included in the prospectus incorporated by reference herein.

 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 19, 2013

 

Exhibit 23.2
 
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
The Management and Board of Directors
NRG Energy, Inc.:
 
We consent to the use of our report dated June 6, 2013, with respect to the combined balance sheets of NRG Yield as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the related combined statements of operations, comprehensive (loss)/income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2012, and to the reference to our firm under the heading “Experts”, included in the prospectus incorporated by reference herein.

 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	 	
July 19, 2013	 	

Exhibit 23.3

 
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
 
We hereby consent to the use in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of NRG Yield, Inc. of our report dated April 26, 2013 relating to the financial statements of GCE Holding LLC, which appears in such Registration Statement.

 	
Boston, Massachusetts	
July 19, 2013	

Exhibit 23.4
 
Independent Auditors’ Consent
 
The Member
GenOn Marsh Landing, LLC:
 
We consent to the use of our report dated March 20, 2013, with respect to the financial statements of GenOn Marsh Landing, LLC (a development stage company), which comprise the balance sheets as of December 31, 2012 (Successor) and 2011 (Predecessor), and the related statements of comprehensive income/(loss), member’s equity (deficit), and cash flows for the period from December 15, 2012 to December 31, 2012 (Successor period), and for the period from January 1, 2012 to December 14, 2012 (Predecessor period), the year ended December 31, 2011 (Predecessor period) and the cumulative period from May 21, 2008 (inception) to December 14, 2012 (Predecessor period), and to the reference to our firm under the heading “Experts”, included in the prospectus incorporated by reference herein.

 
Houston, Texas
July 19, 2013